After leaving asylum, tom waits released swordfishtrombones in 1983 with island records. Provided to youtube by universal music group swordfishtrombone tom waits swordfishtrombones. The 1983 ariola eurodisc pressing has the song title spelled as swordfishtrombones. The album had been finished in 1982, but it took several months before waits had found a record company that dared to release it. Waits released swordfishtrombones in 1983, which employed unusual instruments. A recording of this event circulates and can also be found on bootleg albums. Add to collection add to wantlist remove from wantlist. Release swordfishtrombones by tom waits musicbrainz.
Tom waits swordfishtrombones i didnt listen this lp maybe few years, it just existed in my memory like a great influence, with its own life in my head. Stylistically different from his previous lps, the album moves away from the piano and string orchestra arrangements of the late 1970s, replacing them instead with unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more abstract songwriting ap. Tom waits swordfishtrombones 1983 letters home from humid hong kong streets, sinking singapore slings in sleazy bars, tales of madness, bounty hunts across the frontier and chinatown lurking, tom waits seminal 1983 record, swordfishtrombones, is an ingenious, madcap body of work composed of fifteen intertwining vignettes that rattle between seedy underbellies in reality. Eight albums in and weve gone from a quiet little bar in any town usa steeped in nostalgia and sweetness, to something else entirely. Swordfishtrombones 122 by tom waits cd, dec2016 for. It was the first album that waits produced himself and is marked as such by a sense of artistic freedom that would increasingly characterize his later work. Swordfishtrombones with a couple of years off, during which he married the love of his life, tom waits also found time to change labels and rethink his approach to recordmaking. Album number seven from artistintheshadows, tom waits. Released in 1983, it was a forty minute, thirteen track, carnival mad house of wicked instrumentals and monologues. Waits hatte schon mit swordfishtrombones zwei jahre vorher diese richtung eingeschlagen. Swordfishtrombones by tom waits on amazon music unlimited. Excerpted from tom waits swordfishtrombones by david smay continuum, 2007.
This release comes in a jewel case with a 4 panel folder. I dont mind waits in small doses on a mixed tape, or a various artists cd and im sure a concert would be an event worth the price and logistics of attending certainly the movie was worth it. The picture on the right was taken by anton corbijn. Other pressings seem to have it spelled as swordfishtrombone. Check out swordfishtrombones by tom waits on amazon music. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit n sawdust bars.
Spotted behind the piano by david geffen in las troubadour less than a year earlier. Well, my favourite tom waits album is mule variations as well, so on that evidence swordfishtrombones is a must buy. Swordfishtrombones by tom waits album listen for free. Theres some confusion over the spelling of the songtitle with or without the s. This radical change of direction towards experimental rock became one of the seminal musical landmarks of the 1980s. Underground, shore leave, 16 shells, neighborhood, franks, swordfish, down, soldiers things. Discography in my humble opinion tom waits songwriting has matured immensely since his debut. It was building from the start and although that only comes through in hindsight and by looking at the trajectory of his career, it doesnt seem completely shocking that tom waits would end up making an album like swordfishtrombones in 1983. Crumbling beauty, frank is a little bit of that american dream gone straight to hell. Between the release of heartattack and vine in 1980 and swordfishtrombones in 1983, tom waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. Stylistically different from his previous lps, the album moves away from the piano and string orchestra arrangements of the late 1970s, replacing them instead with unusual. From the 80s on, his work became increasingly theatrical as he moved into acting and composing.
Its a salute to the kind of guy l want to grow up to be some day frank hung. Released in 1983, swordfishtrombones marked a new chapter in tom waits career as he drifted away from the piano jazz club atmospheres towards darker inspirations. On this album, he started to use uncommon instruments in his music. Listen to your favorite songs from swordfishtrombones by tom waits now. Tom waits swordfishtrombones 2009, 180 gram, vinyl. Swordfishtrombones by tom waits album, singersongwriter.
By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as descri. Swordfishtrombones is an album by american singersongwriter tom waits, released in september 1983. Tom waits born thomas alan waits, in pomona, california, on december 7, 1949 is a prolific american singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. On the face of it my choice of tom waits swordfishtrombones by david smay was almost counterintuitive. Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified brougham deville and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings and a mad dog that wouldnt sit still he went and took up with a salvation army band girl who played dirty water on a swordfishtrombone he went to sleep at the bottom of tenkiller lake and he said gee, but its great to be home well, he came home from. Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified brougham deville and a pair of legs that opened. Well he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified brougham deville and a pair of. Tom waits swordfishtrombones swordfishtrombones is tom waits seventh studio album, which was released in september of 1983. Tom waits swordfishtrombones page 2 steve hoffman music.
Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. Swordfishtrombones has 8 great songs, each one containing a world deeper than the majority of worlds conjured on rain dogs. The first album of the loose trilogy that also includes rain dogs and franks wild years, swordfishtrombones marked a radical departure for waits, whose avantgarde ambitions became plain not so much in his lyrics or subject matterthe songs here deal, as do his older albums, with hard life on the wrong side of the tracks and dreams of escape and transcendencebut in the music. Swordfishtrombone this song is by tom waits and appears on the album swordfishtrombones 1983. Waits has composed many an album dating back to 1973s closing time on asylum records. Pitchfork media listed swordfishtrombones as 11th best album of the 1980s.
Tom waits swordfishtrombones lyrics and tracklist genius. Swordfishtrombones by tom waits 42284246927 cd barnes. And somehow, that long lost friend wasnt shadow anymore, he is brand new friend, full of new stories and intimate sounds, willing to share it. In 1989, spin named swordfishtrombones the second greatest album of all time. Feb 19, 2010 tom waits licensed to youtube by umg on behalf of island records. Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head and a modified brougham deville and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings and a mad dog that. Listen to songs by tom waits on myspace, a place where people come to connect, discover, and share. Later, tom waits worked on soundtrack for musical franks wild years, which was premiered in 1986. Albums include rain dogs, swordfishtrombones, and bone machine.
There is no other artist out there with such consistently entertaining and down right genious lyrics, the use of melancholy in some of the songs is so so effective, makes most other artists lyrics just seem boring to me, much rather hear waits talking telling stories of old hobos and madmen not to. Mule variations, real gone, closing time, blue valentine, rain dogs, small change. Reprinted with permission from bloomsbury publishing. Swordfishtrombones is the seventh studio album by american singersongwriter tom waits, released in september 1983.
In the 1970s, tom waits combined a lyrical focus on desperate, lowlife characters with a persona that seemed to embody the same lifestyle, which he sang about in a raspy, gravelly voice. Swordfishtrombones marks the beginning of an obvious trilogy that saw the emergence of waits as a designer of soundscapes this was the first of his albums waits produced himself, with an overall tone that blends equal parts german cabaret, the patina of old 78s, and the sentimental power of a john mccormack ballad. Tom waits paints pictures that spark beautiful thoughts in the listener. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Franks wild years he was a real estate agent that i met. Island promo interview, 1983 island promo interview, 1983 tom waits 1983. Find similar albums to swordfishtrombones tom waits on allmusic. If i wash pushed to grab one tom waits album before they were destroyed it would be swordfishtrombones. Swordfishtrombones is the eighth studio album by american singersongwriter tom waits, released in september 1983.
But he reinvented himself with the junkyard clang of 1983s excellent swordfishtrombones, and his output from that album through to 1999s mule variations is. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that waits previous albums had employed. Stylistically different from his previous lps, the album moves away from the piano and string orchestra arrangements of the late 1970s, replacing them instead with unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more abstract songwriting. If the simply vinyl swordfishtrombones is going cheap, why not buy it and then get yourself an original, you will see a huge difference. Find similar albums to swordfishtrombones tom waits on allmusic allmusic. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Swordfishtrombones 33 series by david smay blogger. Rain dogs is the crowning achievement of waits discography, and one of the. Hints of this shocking second wind metamorphosis pepper waits 1980 heartattack and vine, but that album and its follow up three years later, the jawdroppingly inventive swordfishtrombones, almost sound as though they emerged from antimatter opposites. You can buy album swordfishtrombones 1983 tom waits. Exactly how and why tom waits made swordfishtrombones three decades ago can only be understood by first heading even further back and attempting to piece together the mans unlikely tectonic shift from cabaret to junkyard forty years ago, the 23yearold tom waits released his debut album, closing time. Direct download tom waits swordfishtrombones 1983 mp3. Mercurial multiinstrumentalist and composer david coulter has worked with waits as well as other artists such as. The first in a trilogy of classic albums including rain dogs and franks wild years, swordfishtrombones was tom waits original experiment with his own production, and raw, live.
Jul 31, 2017 tom waits has enjoyed a remarkable career emerging in the early 1970s as a whisky soaked, piano playing balladeer, it seemed like his career was petering out in the early 1980s. Tom waits discography i think sometimes this ends up looking like a tom waits fan blog, but hey, hes a stud and my favorite artist. Tom waits swordfishtrombones download music at musicmp3. Rainbirds makes me sad like wandering alone in a trenchcoat solitary birds high above in the grey rainy sky. Tom waits licensed to youtube by umg on behalf of island records. I hope that i dont fall in love with you, martha, downtown train, ol 55, hold on, biography. Swordfishtrombones is a studio album by tom waits released in 1983. Swordfishtrombones, an album by tom waits on spotify. Tom waits swordfishtrombones veroffentlichungen discogs. I think there is a little bit of frank in everybody source. Rain dogs revisited, david coulter now turns to another major opus by tom waits, swordfishtrombones.
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